Women war photographers capture conflict

Photographing conflict is a dangerous job, and women are now increasingly at the forefront of this important documentation process, despite the barriers they face.

Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas's
chronicle of Nicaragua's 1970s civil war has been reissued by Aperture and the Barbican's
This is War exhibition surveys the work of Gerda Taro, along with contemporary female war photographers such as An-My Lê, who petitioned to be embedded in Iraq. Here are some of the highlights